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A Loose Quarter
Hip-Hop · 2012 · 15 tracks · 1h 5m

A Loose Quarter

Joe Budden

Dense, soul-sampled boom bap serving as a raw psychological autopsy. A claustrophobic and deeply private record of late-night New Jersey introspection.

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It's like eavesdropping on a therapy session over some of the best soul samples of 2012.

A relentless, confrontational autopsy of the self that finds a strange comfort in its own darkness.

A Loose Quarter · vs · Joe Budden
Late Night+0.5σ

Late Night saturates this record a touch more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks · 1h 5m
01
Intro
3:10
02
Words of a Chameleon
1:52
03
What Y'all Want
4:47
04
Cut From a Different Cloth
4:06
05
Through My Eyes
4:23
06
Momma Said
4:01
07
Off 2 the Races
5:06
08
The Helmet (interlude)
2:05
09
So Good
5:18
10
So Hard
5:08
11
Dreams (interlude)
3:31
12
Pain Won't Stop
4:59
13
All in My Head
5:12
14
More of Me
7:00
15
Now or Never
5:00
Moments Worth Waiting For
The relentless, breathless delivery on Words of a Chameleon where the beat feels secondary to the confession.
The haunting soul loop on More of Me that carries a seven-minute meditation on legacy and internal rot.
The jarring transition into the interlude The Helmet that breaks the musical flow for a moment of stark reality.
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